Weighting Cancer Drugs To Make Them Hit Tumors Harder

... Scientists have devised a blueprint for boosting anti-cancer drugs'' effectiveness and lowering their toxicity by attaching the equivalent of a lead sinker onto the drugs. This extra weight makes the drugs penetrate and accumulate inside tumors more effectively.Chemotherapy drugs often fall short of achieving their full impact because the drugs diffuse in and out of the tumor too rapidly, said the scientists from Duke University Medical Center and Duke''s Pratt School of Engineering... click link for more info. ...